BOLD sensitivity and SNR characteristics of parallel imaging-accelerated single-shot multi-echo EPI for fMRI

NeuroImage

Volumn 84, Issue , 2014, Pages 65-75

  Bhavsar, Saurabh ^a,b   Zvyagintsev, Mikhail ^a,b,c   Mathiak, Klaus ^a,b,d  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b JARA   (Germany)

^c IZKF Aachen   (Germany)

^d FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM JÜLICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

BOLD sensitivity; FMRI; Inter subject covariance; Multi echo EPI; Parallel imaging; Temporal SNR

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN MAPPING; CONTRAST TO NOISE RATIO; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SCANNER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SINGLE SHOT MULTI ECHO PLANAR IMAGING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION; BRAIN CIRCULATION; BRAIN CORTEX; COMPUTER ASSISTED DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CEREBROVASCULAR CIRCULATION; ECHO-PLANAR IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; NERVE NET; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84883621994     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2013.08.007     Document Type: Article

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